Important
As of March 31, 2020, Cleverbridge no longer issues payouts to affiliates through the Affiliate
An individual or a company that markets a product to potential customers. The Affiliate receives a commission on a specific action (also called event: e.g., sale, lead, click, visit etc.) previously agreed upon with you, the advertiser. Each action is tracked via a unique tracking link from Partnerize.
An affiliate is also called a publisher. Center. If you choose to continue using the Affiliate Center to manage your affiliates, you are responsible for paying them out based on the performance reports generated by the Cleverbridge platform.
If you no longer want to handle affiliate payouts yourself, ask us about upgrading to Partnerize, our newest performance marketing solution.
Select Products for Get Links Page
- In the Available Products section, select the products to include in the Affiliate Center.
- To filter the list of products, click in the Quick Find filter above the column header row, and enter search text.
- To select multiple items at once, press and hold the CTRL button on your keyboard while selecting the individual items, or, to select a range, click on the top line item in the range, and press and hold the SHIFT button on your keyboard while clicking on the bottom line item in the range.
- Click the
arrow, or drag-and-drop the items to the Selected Products section. The selected products move to the Selected Products section. - To determine the order An agreement between a seller and a buyer to exchange goods and/or services for money. An order can: - contain multiple products and quantities; - have multiple financial transactions. A preorder authorization is considered an order. that the products display in the Affiliate Center, click Move up or Move down.
Enter Settings for a Product
In the Selected Products section, select a product. The following settings must be entered individually for every product in the Selected Products section, even if the settings are the same. However, the settings can also be unique per product.
Allow Direct Purchase Links
In the Allow Direct Purchase An order made by a customer and the records associated with it. Links field, select to enable affiliates to generate direct links to a checkout page for this product. This is an optional field. If selected, a section displays below the product in the Affiliate Center for generating links.
Tip
Offering direct purchase links is best for the following scenarios:
- You want to allow affiliates to generate the links they need on their own. Most affiliates prefer this capability.
- You want to allow affiliates to decide which page they want to link to, such as the checkout, a product landing page, or your website.
- There is no need for links containing tracking parameters, cookie duration parameters, or MVT Multivariate testing (MVT) is a technique for testing two or more different variables in the checkout process to determine which variable creates more revenue or a higher conversion rate. testing.
Don't offer direct purchase links (offer text and banner campaigns instead) for the following scenarios:
- MVT testing is being performed.
- You are routing customers by region, language, browser, or operating system.
- You want to determine the cookie life for your affiliates.
- You are using x-parameters for revenue tracking.
- You want to integrate coupon codes directly in the links.
Example
When this option is selected, a section with a link generator displays below the product information on the Get Links page.
Override Product Description
In the Override Product Description field, select to use a customized product description and image for this product that overrides the defaults set up for the product in the Product portal. Adding this unique product description tailored to your affiliates is optional.
Example
The default description and image for Internet Security Professional is displayed in the Affiliate Center as shown below:
A customized description and image overrides the defaults, as shown below.
Enter a Description
Enter a customized product description for the product.
Select a Product Image
Select an image for the product from Web Files. The image must first be uploaded to the web files before it can be selected for use. For more information, see Web Files ✱.
- To select an image, click the ... button on the right. The Select Web File window displays.
- Optionally, in the Web file folder drop-down list, select a different folder location for the image.
- Select the image file.
- Click OK. The image is added to the Product image section.